# wireless
## English
### Etymology

From wire +‎ -less.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈwaɪə.ləs/
* (General American) IPA: /ˈwaɪ(jə)ɹ.ləs/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Hyphenation: wire‧less

### Adjective

wireless (not comparable)
* Not having any wires.
* Functioning without an external wired connection
    wireless headphones
    wireless charging
** 1914, L. Frank Baum, Tik-Tok of Oz:Ozma, observing this action in her Magic Picture, at once caught up a similar instrument from a table beside her and held it to her own ear. The two instruments recorded the same delicate vibrations of sound and formed a wireless telephone, an invention of the Wizard. Those separated by any distance were thus enabled to converse together with perfect ease.

#### Synonyms

* cordless

#### Antonyms

* wired

#### Derived terms

* wireless adapter
* wireless cable
* wireless fidelity
* wireless modem
* wireless network
* wireless phone
* wireless telegraph
* wireless telegraphy
* wireless telephony

#### Translations

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### Noun

wireless (usually uncountable, plural (dated) wirelesses)
* (uncountable) The medium of radio communication.
    Only about a hundred years ago, wireless was a new technology.
** 1935, George Goodchild, chapter 3, in Death on the Centre Court:It had been his intention to go to Wimbledon, but as he himself said: “Why be blooming well frizzled when you can hear all the results over the wireless. And results are all that concern me. […]”
* (uncountable, networking) Wireless connectivity to a computer network.
    If your wireless stops working, try restarting the router.
* (dated, chiefly British) A radio set.
    Let's switch on the wireless and listen to the news.
** 1979, Trevor Horn, Geoff Downes, Bruce Woolley, “Video Killed the Radio Star”:I heard you on my wireless back in '52
** 2021, Otto English, Fake History, page 2:In the corner of that dark back room stood a black and white television—their one nod to modernity—and beside it, two old wirelesses and a headset that had not seen action since the TV arrived.

#### Derived terms

* coconut wireless
* wirelessless
* wireless operator

#### Translations
### Verb

wireless (third-person singular simple present wirelesses, present participle wirelessing, simple past and past participle wirelessed)
* (dated or obsolete) To send a message by wireless (by radio)
** 1919, William Charles Henry Wood, Flag and Fleet:At 3:30 A.M. a huge Zeppelin flew across the British battle line, wirelessing down to any Germans still to the westward the best way to get home.
** 1933, Robert Byron, First Russia, Then Tibet‎, Part II, Chapter 1:Just outside Piraeus we circled low over a capsized fishing-boat, a grisly wreck in the crystal blue water, and wirelessed a description of it to the mainland.

### Anagrams

* weirless

## Italian
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English wireless.

### Noun

wireless m (invariable)
* wireless (transmission without wires)

### Adjective

wireless (invariable)
* (computing) wireless

## Norman
### Etymology

Borrowed from English wireless.

### Noun

wireless m (uncountable)
* (Guernsey) wireless, radio

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English wireless.

### Noun

wireless f (invariable)
* (networking) wireless (wireless connectivity to a computer network)

### Adjective

wireless (invariable)
* (of hardware) wireless (communicating without wired connections)

#### Synonyms

* sem fio (Brazil) / sem fios (Portugal)